PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...

... and El Salvador. As women participating in this effort, we have confirmed that in our countries the extractivist logic is seriously threatening our territories and populations.
The greed of corporation ...

... He added that around 600 similar cases are being processed by the tribunal highly biased in favor of corporations, and that it should disappear.
Pérez Rocha explained that an advisable measure for countrie ...

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Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería
“Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. ...

... 2016: After a seven-year battle, a World Bank Group-affiliated arbitration tribunal ruled unanimously against a global mining firm that sued El Salvador for not granting it a mining license.2 Global corporations ...

... strategies used by the corporations involved. The organising effort that successfully countered all of them holds valuable lessons for strategic campaigning everywhere.
ISDS – Investor State Dispute Settlement ...

By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont
In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning ...

... the proposed El Dorado mine in Cabañas), and the aggressive strategy used by multinational mining corporations that utilize provisions in trade agreements to sue countries that prioritize environmental ...

... as a “kangaroo court” favoring the interests of corporations over states and Indigenous communities and environmental groups.
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... e North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 23 years ago. This provision unfairly prioritizes corporations, encouraging them to file lawsuits against governments that implement public health and oth ...

... al and social organizations demanded compliance.
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, the Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change and Corporations (MOVIAC), the Association of Participat ...

... visit by the MOVIAC (Movement of Victims of Climate Change and Corporations)in the afternoon, following the mayors of Chalatenango, to present another piece of legislation to ban mining, adds to the pressure ...

... ys and agricultural lands in the area."
Speakers pointed out that, in the ICSID, it is ultimately corporate lawyers – not judges – who decide whether governments must pay corporations for halting dest ...

... other trade and investment agreements that give corporations the power to sue governments over actions that infringe on their profits. Although the ruling went the right way in the end, the people of El ...

... 's International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, which allows corporations to sue states through free trade agreements if future profits are perceived to be infringed upon.
“Such proje ...

... that oppose the use of arbitration under international trade and investment treaties. Activists and environmental groups say that corporations use ICSID to challenge governments’ right to set rules for ...

... for the government to enact a prohibition on any metal mining."
“By allowing transnational companies to blackmail governments to try to force them to adopt policies that favor corporations, investor-stat ...

... d Bank tribunal heavily influenced by large corporations who use there to extort States when they have no access to their lucrative claims.
So all sectors must be alert of the ICSID resolution, to reje ...

... egislative assembly not to allow that, for the sake of our country. We can see that it is the exploitation of a transnational foreign corporations that ultimately leaves very little to our country but ...